Dr. Murat Karaboga

Murat Karaboga is a political scientist and project manager in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) business unit at the Competence Center for New Technologies at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe. He is also a lecturer in the Institute for Political Science at the Johann Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

From 2006 to 2010, Murat Karaboga studied political science, philosophy and education at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. From 2010 to 2013, he studied political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, graduating with a Master of Arts. After an internship at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin in 2013, he began working as a research associate at the Fraunhofer ISI in January 2014.

From 2015 to 2020, he was a doctoral candidate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main under Prof. Dr. Sandra Seubert. He defended his dissertation, in which he examined the emergence of the GDPR and privacy beliefs, at the beginning of 2021.

Since then, he has led studies on the topics of voice, speech and face recognition as well as the social impact and regulation of deepfakes. In a new project (PRETINA), the privacy implications of eye tracking technologies are now being researched in order to contribute to a privacy-preserving, legally compliant and socially acceptable use of eye tracking technologies.